Careership: A sociological theory of career decision making
Careership: A sociological theory of career decision making
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DOI:
10.1080/0142569970180102
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发表时间:
1997-03-01
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
Sparkes, AC
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作者:
Hodkinson, P;Sparkes, AC
In the current discourse on the transition from school to work, career decision-making has a pivotal but paradoxical position. Sociological literature emphasises the dominance of socially-structured pathways, whilst policy-making operates on assumptions of individual freedom to choose. In this paper we draw on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to present a new model of career decision-making given the shorthand title of 'careership'. There are three completely integrated dimensions to the model. These are (i) prapmatically rational decision-making, located in the habitus of the person making the decision; (ii) the interactions with others in the (youth training) field, related to the unequal resources different 'players' possess; and (iii) the location of decisions within the partly unpredictable pattern of turning-points and routines that make up the life course. This model avoids the twin pitfalls of implicit social determinism or of seeing (young) people as completely free agents.